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Posted on: August 12, 2009
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AUCKLAND – The number of Indian students heading to New Zealand has been steadily increasing over the past five years. This year the government is making efforts to see a marked rise in enrolments, marketing itself as a safe alternative to neighbouring Australia where many Indian students have faced racist attacks.
Although Australia has nearly 90,000 Indian students and New Zealand only about 6,000, it is a huge rise from the 500 in this country five years ago.
“India has become an important source for students in recent years. The New Zealand government very much welcomes this growing Indian student body,” says New Zealand High Commissioner to India Rupert Holborow.
New Zealand invests about NZ$3 billion annually in the tertiary (universities and polytechnics) education system where most of the Indian students are enrolled. And following a spate of attacks on Indians in Australia, the New Zealand government has asked its trade and enterprise office in India to market the country as a nation with a culture different from its neighbour.
“What we want to do is to remind education agents in India that New Zealand is a different country from Australia – in the nicest possible way,” Robert Stevens, chief executive of Education New Zealand, was quoted as saying by the New Zealand Herald in June.
Many Indians living in New Zealand agree.
“I came here in February 2008 and I haven’t faced any racial discrimination,” says Joseph Lenus, an Indian pursuing a Diploma in Business at the Waikato Insitute of Technology (Wintec) in Hamilton.
Pharbhu Parsotam, an Indian origin resident of Hamilton, represented the New Zealand hockey team in the past and has coached various club teams. He believes that the country is very accommodating of people from other nationalities.
“I have never faced racism in all my playing days and after. In fact, I had been subjected to howling occasionally on roads but nothing in the sporting area or ground,” says Parsotam.
Nagaraj from Chennai, who has been studying physiotherapy at the Waikato University from July 2008, says he likes New Zealand’s educational system because unlike in India it is student- oriented.
“Here we have a more relaxed way of learning and the tutors are casual in their approach. So adapting to studies and life is easier,” says Nagaraj.
There are also a lot of job opportunities in New Zealand despite the global recession.
Gurminder Singh, who hails from Punjab’s Jalandhar district, is pursuing a Diploma in Business Administration at Wintec and also doing part-time work.
“I work for 20 hours per week and earn nearly $200. With this money I could cover my living expenses as well as save and send for my family back home in India,” says Singh.
Students enter New Zealand through a one-year student visa, which gets converted to a graduate open work visa for one year and allows them to opt for any job.
After one year, they can opt for a two-year work visa. Meanwhile, they can apply for permanent residency and get one if they get maximum points in the skilled migrant category.
Daphne Bell, a community organiser in Hamilton who teaches immigrants English for free and has authored “New to NZ: A Guide to Ethnic groups in New Zealand”, says that Indian migrants provide a symbol of multi-culturalism that is essential for New Zealand.
“Indians work harder than the natives and New Zealand should make all efforts to tap the potential of the migrants,” she says.
New Zealand is a multi-ethnic country and is predominately populated by the white population known as Paheka. The indigenous Maori community constitutes 16 percent of the population.
Historian and Auckland Institute of Technology professor Paul Moon says that though the Maori population was initially cold to Asians, there is now a better understanding among them for political rights.
“This is reflected in the election of Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi of the ruling National Party as a member of parliament,” says Moon.
Suman Kapoor, New Zealand secretary of the Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), says Indians are safe in New Zealand because of the political clout that they enjoy.
“Indian origin people enjoy enormous political influence because political parties look up to them for funding during the elections,” says Kapoor.
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Posted on: July 8, 2009
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NEW DELHI – External Affairs Minister S.M Krishna has said that he would visit Australia soon.
Issues related to safety of Indian students in Australia are expected to top the agenda of discussions.
Addressing a news conference here on Wednesday, Krishna said that the dates of his visit are being worked out.
He further said that the government has asked its High Commission in Australia to check the veracity of a media report that around 27 Indian students had died there last year due to various causes.
The attacks on Indian students in recent weeks caused some diplomatic discomfort between the two countries and sparked angry protests in India. Australia’s government condemned the attacks and is launching an inquiry into them.
Indian students believe that the attacks are “racist”, while Australian authorities consider them crime-related. (ANI)
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TORONTO – Two Indian doctoral students are among 37 international researchers who have been awarded Canadian scholarships.
The two Indian recipients for the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2009 are Niladri Chattopadhyay, who will pursue cancer research at the University of Toronto, and Atam Kapoor, who will work in the field of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta, an official statement said Thursday.
The awards will entitle them to $50,000 each per year for up to three years.
Once at full capacity, the programme will support up to 500 new students annually.
The scholarships were announced by the Canadian government in budget 2008 and are awarded to the world’s leading doctoral students hailing from across Canada and abroad.
Announcing the scholarships in Ottawa, Canada’s Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear, said: “The recipients of these scholarships are the world’s leading doctoral students and the next generation of researchers, professors and industry leaders who will make considerable economic and social contributions in Canada and abroad.”
The scholarship programme aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health, as well as leadership skills.
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LONDON – Six Indian students have won prestigious Gates scholarships to study at Cambridge – including one who wants to find out if the Harappan civilisation was brought down by environmental changes.
The six are among 90 students from 32 countries around the world who have been selected from a field of over 6,700 applicants, the university announced Tuesday.
The scholarship programme, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – a leading global charity, enables postgraduates with a strong interest in social leadership and responsibility to study at the University of Cambridge.
The six Indian scholars, who were selected after interviews in India in April, will begin their studies in the autumn.
They were named as: Anjali Bhardwaj Datta, a lecturer at Delhi University; Yama Dixit, an environmental scientist from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; Mathew Madhavacheril who is studying physics at Delhi University; Pritika Pradhan of Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi, who will complete her undergraduate studies in English; Kiran Rachuri, a masters student from the Indian Institute of Technology – Chennai; and Anish Vanaik, a history student at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Yama Dixit will do a PhD in Earth Sciences at Cambridge, looking at whether environmental change was behind the collapse of the Harappan Civilisation and whether her findings can shed light on links between climate and civilisational activities.
The other 84 new Gates scholars include the first to be selected from Bangladesh, Belarus, Mongolia, Montenegro, Slovakia and Venezuela.
Gordon Johnson, Provost (CEO) of the Gates Cambridge Trust, said: ‘Being part of the Gates community brings with it a responsibility to use an education gained at one of the world’s leading universities for the benefit of society at large – we are confident that the new cohort of Gates Scholars will meet this responsibility in a range of interesting and creative ways’.
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Source: Education Times, India
The UK may once again emerge a preferred destination for higher studies among Indian students, as the recent spate of attacks on the current
batch in Australia forces them to redraw their plans. One of the best education systems and shortest visa processing time make UK the strongest contender to replace this affordable and easy-going destination for education.
“The pattern of education is the same in Australia and the UK, as they both offer similar courses. And since, UK enrolls students in the September period versus July for Australia, this is still an open option for students,” said the director of a large education consultancy firm in Mumbai. The average fee for a course in engineering or MBA is the same in the UK as that in Australia.
Over time, the UK has slipped to third place as the chosen foreign country by Indian students: in 2008, only 29,000 students landed on UK’s shores, against 90,000 for the US and 36,000 for Australia. A higher cost of living and a two-year work permit after graduation as compared to permanent residency saw more students flocking to Australia.
It was in early 2000s that Australia sensed an opportunity in educating Indian students. The Australian universities joined hands with the government, and organised education fairs in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Punjab, among other places, with a focus on the campuses and the courses offered.
The sweeteners were too lucrative for Indian students to ignore: permanent residency within three years after studying for 18 months in Australia, and a host of job opportunities. In the past few years, a total of 90,000 students have taken up higher studies in the island nation, according to industry estimates.
“Those who do not want to settle abroad or have plans to take up a job elsewhere opt for the UK. However, most of them want to start their career abroad and settle there, and Australia gives them this opportunity,” said an industry official requesting anonymity.
While most students prefer a one-year diploma course, others opt for a two-year course in engineering and computer science, which costs around Rs 13 lakh, nearly half the fee for a similar course in the US. This excludes books, housing and food.
“A lot of students choose Australia because of the vocational courses offered by its universities. The most-sought-after courses among Indian students are hotel management, hospitality, accounting and hair-dressing,” said Piyush Agrawal, a director at Abroad Education Consultants.
However, in the recent past, the visa application process has become tedious in Australia, benefiting the UK. As a result, the current academic year has seen around 25% of the students opting for the UK as a study destination. Last year, 29,000 students opted for the UK, 24% less than Australia’s intake during the year.
“A UK visa takes a maximum of 21 days to be processed, but it takes almost 45 days for Australia. Other countries such as New Zealand and Ireland, which are emerging as study destinations, take over two months to process student visas,” said Madhukar Reddy, consultant director at IAEC. The number of visas issued to Indian passport holders to enter New Zealand to study almost doubled in 2008 to 4,978 from the previous year.
If the UK regains the second spot as an education destination for Indians, it will lead to millions of pounds pouring into the country’s slowdown-hit economy — the 29,000 students who preferred to study in the UK last year contributed £750 million, according to industry estimates. Similarly, the 90,000 Indian students who have landed on Australian shores have already supported its economy with a generous helping of A$10 billion.
The UK, which was the original foreign destination of Indian students since late 1800s, has seen architects of modern India such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru study in its elite universities. It was only in the second half of 1900s that the US become the choice of a majority of Indian students, as the country emerged a global superpower and offered good education opportunities along with lucrative employment options.
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Brussels: Chinese and Indian university graduates have won the most scholarships to study for a master’s degree in the European Union (EU) in the next academic year, EU officials said on Wednesday.
One in 10 of all the “Erasmus Mundus” master’s scholarships offered – 188 out of a total of 1,833 – were won by Chinese graduates for the academic year 2009-10, officials in the European Commission, the EU’s executive, said.
The scholarships provide for students from outside the EU to follow a one or two-year master’s course at two or more universities across the 27-member bloc.
Graduates from around the world can apply, and winners are selected on merit, with no national or regional quotas, commission officials said.
Indian students were second only to Chinese ones in their success at bidding for the scholarships, with 118 winners confirmed. Brazil (90), Mexico (89) and Bangladesh (74) completed the top five, with students from 100 other countries also making the grade.
The Erasmus Mundus programme – named after Dutch Renaissance humanist Desiderius Erasmus and the Latin word for “world” – aims at boosting academic ties between the EU and the rest of the world.
It is modelled on the EU’s Erasmus programme, which organises exchanges between universities within the EU.
Its budget is set at 195 million euros ($275 million) per year between 2009 and 2013.
The programme also includes grants for shorter-term and post-graduate student exchanges. IANS
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